A Canticle for Lebowitz

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A Canticle for Lebowitz Walter M. Miller, Jr. Copyright date: 1959 In A Canticle for Lebowitz, the character that starts everything off is Brother Francis. Brother Francis was just a young novice looking for a place of refuge, in the time were mutants roamed the deserts and barbarians ruled the plains. Brother Francis is a well-mannered man, who believes in himself greatly. When the Abbot kept on questioning his thoughts, Brother Francis always stood his ground …

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…civilization and the destruction of it. I admit, it is a way to think of the world, that when we are technologically capable of destroying the world, would we? And then would we just rebuild it and destroy it again? That is the only part that I liked in the book, the message that Walter M. Miller gave us, that we cannot do this to ourselves, and we have to prevent war from breaking out.